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I think perhaps it is up to @percho to decide if my post is relevant to the OP. The point you missed, and which I addressed, was concerning the three hours of darkness ending at the 9th hour (3 pm).

You asked about the meaning of 2 Corinthians 5:21 and my reply gave no fewer than four Bible references. However, i do hope to post something on the union of the believer with Christ in due course, but my duties at the church I attend are keeping me very busy at present, so don't hold your breath.

 

I started to quote John 17:4, but you already had. Bam! Suddenly! 4 "I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."

 

Mat 15:24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

 

Because I believe this is relative to the OP, I would like to ask all:

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isa 53:6

Who did the LORD lay the iniquity of us all upon? Who is the LORD? Who is him?

Did, the LORD laying the iniquity of us all, take place in a literal moment in time?
Is that the same moment as the following in bold, "τὸν γὰρ μὴ γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν ? from 2 Cor 5:21
Was Jesus saying, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, relative to having the iniquity us us all being laid upon him.

What was left to happen?

Well death for one.
What about maybe an answered prayer? The prayer John 17;5 'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;
The answer 1 Peter 1:21 who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

 

It is finished, everything needed to be done has been finished by Christ, to save His People from their sins, everyone He died for is saved from their sins, and will be given Life Jn 6:33

For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

So they shall be saved by His Life on the premise of His death.

 

@percho

Jesus Christ ! And the US is Gods chosen Sheep

 

Does this include the regeneration that must occur in order for someone to believe according to reformed theology?

 

Yes, for His Resurrection was proof that His Death was successful, and when He sat down on the Right Hand of God, He was given the Holy Spirit so that He sends Him to regenerate all for whom He died. Acts 2:33

Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

The Holy Spirit is given to Spiritually apply the finished work of Christ unto all for whom He died.

 

What Jesus said was finished was already finished prior to John 19:28, ". . . Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, . . ."

 

A worthless comment. What Christ finished ensured the full salvation of all for whom He died, all the Father gave Him to save.

 

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

 

They are the same people.

 

Well using the logic of reformed theology, if God still has to regenerate you and then give you faith it cannot possibly be finished.

 

Looks like whatever, "it," is, it is singular.

 

That is nonsense. As Paul says,
Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

That whole work was finished when Jesus said it was finished.

God chose the Jewish nation when they rejected him over and over again. Why do you think God could choose the Jews and not His church? He did it for his glory and grace. The same applies in the following.

1Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

 

His finished Work is the basis, ground why the elect are regenerated and given faith, Christ earned it for them, and He sees to it they are given to them.

 

So you have people saved before the foundation of the world or when Christ died? Either way it is not biblical. Romans 4:5
Christ was "delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification."

 

So you have people declared to be righteous before God before they even believe. Not a biblical view. Romans 3:21-26